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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Kizer

Posted 2018-04-13 by Judy Wight Branson
Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona
Friday, November 12, 1954, page 1, column 2

Lizzie Kizer, Native of Prescott, Dies at 73

Another name was erased from the list of living old-timers in
Prescott this morning with the death in a local hospital of Mrs.
Lizzie Kizer, 73 years old. She was born on McCormick street in
Prescott May 22, 1881, and except for nine years of schooling in San
Diego, Calif., spent her entire life here.

She was the daughter of an Indian War veteran, the late, J. F.
Mahoney, an Irishman, who fought to make Prescott a part of the
United States Territory as far back as 1867. Later she became the
wife of the late John D. Kizer, who also was a well known pioneer
and railroad man around Prescott. Her residence at the time of her
death was 217 N. Pleasant.

Two sisters, Mrs. J. E. Crose and Mrs. W. D. Poulson, also natives
of Prescott residing here their entire lives , surviving her, as
well as a son, John D. Kizer, Jr., of Prescott, three grandchildren
and one great grandchild.

The body will lie in state at the Ruffner Funeral Home from 9 a.m.
to 9 p.m. on Sunday, November 14.

Funeral services will be conducted at Ruffners at 10:30 a.m. on
Monday, November 15, by the Elder W. C. Hankins of the Seventh Day
Adventist Church.

Burial will follow the services in the family plot in Mountain View
Cemetery.


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